Unsettled

 Happy Sabbath,

I had a good week but ran into some challenges along the way.  I thank the Lord I was able to get all my trainings done (7hrs total under 2 hrs to get a short work day on Thursday.  I did take some time to view videos and look through materials and I went ahead and answered the quizzes that were available to pass and get training credit.  Last year it was much harder and I am thankful that this year was not so.  

I am thankful that the device I purchased for my free computer monitors works.  I have dual monitors now but I am still without internet at least for the time being.  I might look into getting a wifi card as all attempts to download wifi drivers and bluetooth drivers for that computer failed.  Nothing was compatible and I am only able to connect via ethernet cable which I temporarily did in my bedroom. I managed to download a couple useful applications but I would really like it to be connected in that room.  If a wifi card doesn't work, I will have to have my internet provider move the modem source to that room instead of the opposite side of the house where it currently is.  I haven't needed to open up a cpu in many years so I'l have to get the right screw drivers to get access and hopefully not mess things up if I do the card.  

I am thankful that I have a free computer, monitors and printer with toner.  I hope to finish putting everything else together in the next two or so days.

I am thankful for a good service today.  Two of our founding members are leaving and it was a good message today and tribute given.  They will be missed by many.  One moved back to her home country so now we are left with two to carry on,  I am going to do what I can to keep things going in the right direction and be present in support of the ministries as much as reasonable.  Maybe that's why I was under spiritual attack last night.  I have been dealing with some things over the past few weeks but nothing like what happened last night.

I prayed with my son before heading to bed and I don't think it was even one hour into my rest that I had what I would say was a vision of an invisible force throwing my plants and things down and around in my bedroom.  I awoke to it and am not sure if I screamed but I went into prayer for quite sometime.  I felt a presence around me that was unsettling and continued to pray it away.  I also went on to play scripture in my room as I continued to pray and did not leave my bed.  At some point later, I looked over to see if anything was disturbed but my plants were still on my side table as usual so I thought I had imagined it.  I went to sleep and woke up around 6am and prepared questions and did a review of the children's sabbath school lesson.  Then as it was almost 7am I decided it was time for me to get up and went to get out my bed and head to my bathroom.  It was then that I had my glasses on and could see that what had happened last night was not my imagination.  I saw my aloe vera plant on the floor along with the hand soap bottle and hand sanitizer bottle.  That plant has never fallen on its own and sits on top of my toilet.  No reason in the world for it to move, yet it was laying on the floor, soil and all with broken arms of the plant.  

So it was not my bedroom but my bathroom instead that this happened.  There were other things that happened over the last two sabbaths at church which I brought to the attention of church leadership.  One of ny students saw something and experienced something and many people would disregard what he had to say but this stuff is real.  I pray for him, his family, the children in my sabbath school, my family, my home...myself.  God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power, love, and of a sound mind.  I'm under attack for a reason but the Lord Jesus is greater than anything out here.  I'm giving it to Jesus.  So though I am unsettled, I am and I hope that you with what ever struggles you are facing trust in Jesus and allow the Holy Spirit to help you.  Jesus promised to send a Helper.  Let us seek Him and stay with Him.  May you continue to walk and be blessed in Jesus' Name.